Django by Samia

Everyone remembers the feeling of their first young love. You find the person of your dreams, ignoring all their flaws or viewing them as unique quirks and creating an elaborate future 'happily ever after' in your head about how you and they will be together forever. Then, like with most young loves, the rose-colored glasses are taken off, their flaws turn into red flags, and one of you is left crying on the bathroom floor.

Heartbreak is a natural part of the human experience, and all of us have felt it at least once in our lives. Whether it was a romantic breakup, a friend breakup, or something else that makes your heartache, we all know what it's like to have those moments where it feels like everything's caving in on us. During those times, it's easy to reflect on the relationship, everything we think we could've or should've done differently to keep it all together.

Whether this heartache or ended relationship was three years ago or three days ago, Samia's song "Django" captures the wild array of emotions we all feel during a breakup of any kind. Her haunting, powerful vocals captivate the listener with a song fully expressing the raw emotion of a breakup, mixing the pain of a relationship being over with a wry nod towards the moments that were toxic.

The chorus is repeated three times throughout the song with the same words "how easily you let me go/how I matched you at the moment I don't know/ Django, Django, don't go," but the difference between the first and last chorus of the songs couldn't be more apparent. The first time we hear the words, it conveys a clear sense of trying to move on after a very devasting breakup, with the spoken question of how easily "Django" could have let them go after all they had been through. There is a feeling of forcing oneself to seem fine and understanding towards being left behind and seeing how it could be the best solution for everybody.

But as the song continues and the clear flaws and toxic behavior of "Django" are remembered more and more by the singer, the last chorus fully exposes the listener to her inner emotional state. There is anger, pain, and a sarcastic wonderment towards 'how easily you (Django) let me go' since they clearly used to be so in love.

Samia's "Django" conveys all the relatable feelings we all experience but can't always put into words. In both the lyrics, vocals, and musical background, the entire emotional process of a serious break-up is portrayed and touches us in a way that only music can.